Albanians

Albanians (Albanian:Shqiptarët) are defined as an ethnic group native to Albania and neighboring countries. The term is also used sometimes to refer to the citizens of the Republic of Albania. Ethnic Albanians speak the Albanian language and more than half of ethnic Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo. A large Albanian population lives in the Republic of Macedonia, with smaller Albanian populations located in Serbia and Montenegro. Albanians produced many prominent figures such as Skanderbeg, leader of the medieval Albanian resistance to the Ottoman conquest and others during the Albanian National Awakening seeking self-determination. Following the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the 15th century, the majority of Albanians converted to Islam. Muslim Albanians occupied many important positions in the Ottoman Empire, and were the main pillars of Ottoman Porte's policy in the Balkans. Albania gained its independence in 1912 and between 1945-1992, Albanians lived under a repressive communist regime. Albanians within Yugoslavia underwent periods of discrimination and eventual self-determination that concluded with the breakup of that state in the early 1990s culminating with Albanians living in new countries and Kosovo. Outside the southwestern Balkans of where Albanians have traditionally been located, Albanian populations through the course of history have formed new communities contributing to the cultural, economic, social and political life of their host populations and countries while also at times assimilating too.

Albanians

Albanians (Albanian:Shqiptarët) are defined as an ethnic group native to Albania and neighboring countries. The term is also used sometimes to refer to the citizens of the Republic of Albania. Ethnic Albanians speak the Albanian language and more than half of ethnic Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo. A large Albanian population lives in the Republic of Macedonia, with smaller Albanian populations located in Serbia and Montenegro. Albanians produced many prominent figures such as Skanderbeg, leader of the medieval Albanian resistance to the Ottoman conquest and others during the Albanian National Awakening seeking self-determination. Following the Ottoman conquest of the Balkans in the 15th century, the majority of Albanians converted to Islam. Muslim Albanians occupied many important positions in the Ottoman Empire, and were the main pillars of Ottoman Porte's policy in the Balkans. Albania gained its independence in 1912 and between 1945-1992, Albanians lived under a repressive communist regime. Albanians within Yugoslavia underwent periods of discrimination and eventual self-determination that concluded with the breakup of that state in the early 1990s culminating with Albanians living in new countries and Kosovo. Outside the southwestern Balkans of where Albanians have traditionally been located, Albanian populations through the course of history have formed new communities contributing to the cultural, economic, social and political life of their host populations and countries while also at times assimilating too.

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Thaci did not say what Serbia might receive in return for giving up such territory - home to up to 70,000ethnicAlbanians - and rejected any partition of Kosovo along ethnic lines ... Kosovo, whose population of 1.8 million is mainly ethnicAlbanian, declared independence from Belgrade in 2008, a decade after NATO bombed rump-Yugoslavia to end the killing of Albanian civilians by Serb forces during a two-year insurgency....

U.S. forces on rotation in Bulgaria wrapped up counterinsurgency training that included troops from Serbia, one of Moscow’s closest friends in Europe...Army Capt. Nick Spicocchi, an observer-controller for one of the multinational companies at the exercise ... NATO bombed Serbia during a 78-day aerial onslaught in 1999 to prevent a crackdown on ethnicAlbanians in that country’s Kosovo province, which later declared independence from Serbia....

About 200 soldiers from the U.S. peacekeeping force in Kosovo are firing rifles, grenade launchers and missiles on the move for 20 days in Macedonia as a test run for much bigger exercises ...The drills, which finish Aug ... and Macedonia, military officials said ... Col. DonaldBraman, 61st Cavalry commander ... Serbia does not recognize Kosovo as a sovereign state and tensions between the Serbian minority and Kosovo’s ethnicAlbanians remain high....

If convicted, the men will face jail sentences of up to 10 years. Most of the ethnicAlbanians who make up one third of Macedonia's 2 million population are Muslim, but practice a moderate form of Islam...Western officials have expressed concern that those returning from Syria and Iraq could represent a security threat in the Balkans, which was riven by ethnic and sectarian wars during the 1990s ... ....

A former Serb policeman was indicted for allegedly taking part in killing of two people - one of them with disabilities - and for forcing ethnicAlbanian civilians out of a village in 1998 during the war in Kosovo...Albanian population by Serb forces in the village of Dush near Klina, a town around 60 kilometres west of Pristina....

... with Serbia along ethnic lines – a suggestion that has been widely debated in recent days ... “This would also send a dangerous message to all Serbs and Albanians which are living on the ‘wrong side’ of ‘their’ ethnic states, which could lead to another exodus of the population in the Balkans,” it adds....

A new Yale University research study of almost 3,000 patients offers a simpler, cheaper strategy for promoting sensible prescribing ...The Yale team lowered this default from 30 to 12 ... For example, in response to a mandate that every patient’s ethnicity be entered into the electronic medical record, some physicians record their patients as Albanian because that is the first option in the alphabetical drop-down menu ... .......

Rushiti, an ethnicAlbanian from Gjilan in eastern Kosovo, worked by day with the UN’s children’s agency and at night with Doctors Without Borders... Rushiti, then 28, had spent much of the 1990s studying medicine in secret in Kosovo, negotiating the Serbian “apartheid” that closed educational and other institutions to ethnicAlbanians....